random house publishing group feb 2022 (17 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE The masterly debut novel from an exquisitely astute writer (The Boston Globe), about growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight. The New York Times Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend. The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping My parents didn t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway. For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country s oldest and most illustrious families the Cabots, the Lowells: the first, best people by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers. 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE The masterly debut novel from an exquisitely astute writer (The Boston Globe), about growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight. The New York Times Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend. The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping My parents didn t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway. For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country s oldest and most illustrious families the Cabots, the Lowells: the first, best people by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers. 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE The masterly debut novel from "an exquisitely astute writer" (The Boston Globe), about growing up inand out ofthe suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD "Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight."The New York Times"Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend."The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping"My parents didn't belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway."For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country's oldest and most illustrious familiesthe Cabots, the Lowells: the "first, best people"by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town's prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harmfrom the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up inand out ofthe suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Chen, Yuyi (illustrator). Neuware - 'Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this fun twist on the popular nursery rhyme 'Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush!''.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly aloof bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Include book club guide with a conversation with the author and discussion questions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A beautiful invitation to discover your place in God's heart and let him set the pace for your lifefrom a wife and mother, singer-songwriter, and worship leader for Passion Conferences and IF:Gathering"Christy Nockels is a gentle, strong voice shepherding us into a fuller life with Jesus at the very center. This book will restore your weary soul."Jennie Allen,New York Timesbestselling author ofGet Out of Your Headand founder and visionary of IF:GatheringChristy Nockels knows firsthand how easily our desire to serve Godeven when using the gifts He has given uscan overshadow our delight in simply being with Him. When God called her to lay down her ministry for a season, Christy was forced to confront how her sense of purpose and worth had become tangled up in her work. God then lovingly invited her to discover true rest in His presence as she learned to live as the Beloved.InThe Life You Long For,Christy shows us how to let go of hustle and achievement and instead find our identity in the quiet center of God's love. As we delight in being with Him, we are filled to overflowing with contentment and love that propel us into an entirely new way of being, one in which every act of service and every encounter with the people around us arise from a heart at rest.With irresistible warmth and grace, this book calls you to step fully into the life you didn't even realize you've been seeking, as you find your highest calling not in a duty to uphold but in a beautiful identity to live out.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a woman inherits her estranged mother s bookstore in London s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story hers filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of her life.When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own in California. Now a librarian in her thirties, fresh out of a failed marriage and still at odds with her mother s abandonment, Val feels disenchanted with her life.In a bittersweet twist of fate, she receives word that Eloise has died, leaving Val the deed to her mother s Primrose Hill apartment and the Book Garden, the storied bookshop she opened almost two decades prior. Though the news is devastating, Val jumps at the chance for a new beginning and jets across the Atlantic, hoping to learn who her mother truly was while mourning the relationship they never had.As Val begins to piece together Eloise s life in the U.K., she finds herself falling in love with the pastel-colored third-floor flat and the cozy, treasure-filled bookshop, soon realizing that her mother s life was much more complicated than she ever imagined. When Val stumbles across a series of intriguing notes left in a beloved old novel, she sets out to locate the book s mysterious former owner, though her efforts are challenged from the start, as is the Book Garden s future. In order to save the store from financial ruin and preserve her mother s legacy, she must rally its eccentric staff and journey deep into her mother s secrets. With Love from London is a story about healing and loss, revealing the emotional, relatable truths about love, family, and forgiveness.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "A riotous journey into the heart of insanity also known as the State of Florida. Bravo!"Gary Shteyngart, author ofLake Success Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businessesa moribund motel and a shabby amusement parkendangered, but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island's history, as well as his understanding of his family's birthright as pioneering homesteaders. Meanwhile, there are other Florida men with whom Crowe must contend. Hector "Catface" Morales, a Cuban refugee, trained assassin, and crack-addicted Marielito, is seeking revenge on Reed for stealing his stash of drugs and leaving him for dead (unbeknownst to Reed) in the wreckage of a plane crash in the Everglades decades ago. Loner and misanthrope Henry Yahchilane, a Seminole native, has something to hide on the island. So does irascible and pervy Wayne Wade, Reed Crowe's childhood friend turned bad penny. Then there are the Florida women, including Heidi Karavas, Reed Crowe's ex-wife, now a globe-trekking art curator, and Nina Arango, a Cuban refugee and fiercely protective woman with whom Reed Crowe falls in love. There are curses. There are sea monsters. There are biblical storms. There's something called the Jupiter Effect. Ultimately, Florida Man is a generation-spanning story about how a man decides to live his life, and how despite staying landlocked and stubbornly in one place, the world nevertheless comes to him.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE The masterly debut novel from "an exquisitely astute writer" (The Boston Globe), about growing up inand out ofthe suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD "Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight."The New York Times"Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend."The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping"My parents didn't belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway."For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country's oldest and most illustrious familiesthe Cabots, the Lowells: the "first, best people"by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town's prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harmfrom the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up inand out ofthe suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's reach. The world's biggest corporations are racing to automate jobs, and some experts predict that A.I could put millions of people out of work. Meanwhile, runaway algorithms have already changed the news we see, the politicians we elect, and the ways we interact with each other. But all is not lost. With a little effort, we can become futureproof. In Futureproof: 9 Rules for Machine-Age Humans, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out an optimistic vision of how people can thrive in the machine age by rethinking their relationship with technology, and making themselves irreplaceably human. In nine pragmatic, accessible lessons, Roose draws on interviews with leading technologists, trips to the A.I. frontier, and centuries' worth of history to prepare readers to live, work, and thrive in the coming age of intelligent machines. He shares the secrets of people and organizations that have successfully survived technological change, including a 19th-century rope-maker and a Japanese auto worker, and explains how people, organizations, and communities can apply their lessons to safeguard their own futures. The lessons include: Do work that is surprising, social, and scarce (the types of work machines can't do), break your phone addiction with the help of a rubber band, work in an office, treat A.I. like the office gorilla, resist 'hustle porn' and efficiency culture and do less, slower Roose's examination of the future rejects the conventional wisdom that in order to compete with machines, we have to become more like them -- hyper-efficient, data-driven, code-writing workhorses. Instead, he says, we should let machines be machines, and focus on doing the kinds of creative, inspiring, and meaningful work only humans can do'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that 'It be filled with my Love always.' Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley. From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter, Miles then follows the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States. As she follows Ashley's journey, Miles metaphorically 'unpacks' the sack, deepening its emotional resonance and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf'--Title page verso.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE The masterly debut novel from an exquisitely astute writer (The Boston Globe), about growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight. The New York Times Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend. The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping My parents didn t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway. For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country s oldest and most illustrious families the Cabots, the Lowells: the first, best people by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in and out of the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents take to the streets to rally against encroaching threats on their democracy and freedoms. But it is also misunderstood and often romanticized, its history and politics oversimplified in Western headlines. Drawing richly from her own experience, as well as countless interviews with the artists, protestors, students, and writers who have made Hong Kong their home, journalist Karen Cheung gives us an insider's view of this remarkable city, making the case along the way that we should look to Hong Kong as a warning sign for what lies ahead for other global democracies'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking journey Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their family and themselves. Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor's true history, and fulfill her final request to 'share the black cake when the time is right ''--Publisher marketing.